History buffs! Youâve heard the story You know the actor. Youâve seen the movie(s).
But do you know the rest of the story behind this cemetary Monument ? 
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Nice find, Bill!
I did a talk on the movie and story a couple years ago at the V&T conference, because a V&T loco starred in the movie, and we watched it for movie night, and I was the introducer).
I didnât know about the headstone, super cool.
Hereâs an animated version of the story.
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That was quite interesting Cliff. How did Disney handle the capture of them Yankees?
As you know, it didnât end well for several of the northerners⌠So after the last about-to-be-executed scene, Disney cut over to the same scene that starts the movie: in the White House I think, with the first presentations of the Congressional Medal of Honor, which was first awarded to certain of these men, both survivors and those that were executed, IIRC.
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You want a real life story of some stolen locomotives on the loose⌠This happened in the Seattle Terminal.
Thomas Stonewall Jacksonâs capture of B&O equipment early in the U.S. Civil War trumps any of thisâŚassuming it happened, or at least happened at the scale generally reported ( Jacksonâs operations against the B&O Railroad (1861) - Wikipedia). Arguments against are the relative lack of eyewitnesses relative to the size of the capture, its absence in the Official Records, and the reliability of one of the primary sources. Arguments for - to include those given to me by a relatively incensed docent at the B&O museum - are records of captured B&O locomotives reclaimed post War as well as those eyewitness accounts that do exist. I think enough was captured to cause limited, local stir that caused amplified accounts in the misty eyed musings of later years.
Let not facts stand in the way of a good story!
Eric
What a huge story, thanks Eric. Lots of info in that article.
The rebuttal by James I. (âBuzzkillâ) Robertson Jr. at the end is pretty deflating, letâs hope he isnât correct.